The Portland daily press., 1887-07-25
AT MARTHA's GROVE.
The Ardor of the chatauquans un-
quenched by the Rain.
Rev. o. p. clifford Expounds Some
of the Problems of Life.
DImples, Bones and Wrinkles
Treated by a Clergyman.
Especial to the Press ]


from the rain hereafter rather than on the
discomfort that attends it now and for those
established on the grounds this is slight
Many from adjoining towns who otherwise
would be here are waiting till next week.
Today the clouds have lifted enough to per-
NIT some boating and croquet. Friday even
ing the meeting was opened with prayer by
Rev. j. ID. Emerson of Kennebunkport. The
lecture was so interesting that many won
dered whe ther with all the fine speakers yet
to come we should like any as well as
REV. o. p. CLIFFORD
Boston, who spoke as follows:
In the book which made boyhood delight
Robinson Crusoe found himself upon an isl
and with fourfactors to deal with, himself.
his civilization, raw materials. and brother
man. We all are Robinson Crusoe's and
what we do with these factors answers all
the problems of life.
There are three questions asked by man :
the Child asks-Where did come from ?-the
youth Where am | going? and the older
man-What am 1? (He then referred to the
Platonlc, Buddhist and scientific theories re-
garding the origin Of man and his future
state and the Christian belief ON the subject.)
But the greatest question is-What am / !?
The Greek motto was, "Know thyself." ''The
proper study of mankind in man." Study
yourself Mind your own business and to
do that mind yourself. / set at the centre of
my own life but touch only the circumfer-
ence of that of my nearest friend. We are
three fold-body, mind and spirit--Plant an
acorn and a beautiful tree grows firmly
planted with roots in every direction. "A
righteous man shall be like tree planted by
rivers of water" All things come to him
who stands. Be true to yourself, adopt hours
food and dress that agree with you. Keep
the body under the mind. General b. f.
Butler of Massachusetts, is said to
have lost but one law case and that was
when his opponent made him over eat
Keep the body under and it is a magnificent
machine. Above all is the spiritual essence,
Young man it is profoundly unscientifc to
ignore your spirit.
Acknowledge your own limits. You can
not enter any kingdom of knowledge or
thought unless you become like a little child
who is by nature an animated interrogation
point.
BY the age of 12 or IA in the deathly atmos-
phere of our civilization it is fattened to an
exclamation point, bound to bo surprised at
nothing, and later Is only period.
Dare to stand alone-There are men who
dlc utNcI III 81 pour COulDdDN as WHICH IIeN
are alone, and they know it; such haunt
grog shops and groceries; even cows chew
their cuds and camels carry water for the
deserts, but such men have no resources
within themselves.
Civilization has been partially defined by
Messrs. Gui lot and others. They say the
COWS engineered Boston streets, but they
are worth more today than when the cows
walked through them Il. e. are civilized civ
iliZation is what you tear out of the centre
and nile fOn of the earth m t1t-
man thought. Our civilization has become
so DurdenSOm and complicated, we have to
run away from it into the woods once year,
as buds moult. Find the least possible you
can do with. Two things that are not nee
essary are, alcohol, which nothing equals to
preserve a dead carcass or deaden live one,
and its Siamese twin. tobacco.
Raw materials-lay all about Robinson
around us. What shall we do with them?
Our descendants will look back on us as we
look upon our children in the nursery. The
great inventions of all ages are echoes of the
FOOTBALLS Of nature. Men must study the un-
alterable laws of nature and master them.
When you learn how things go, let them 90,
only fix 1t so they will carry you.
A quotation from the Psalm of Life intro
duced the division, Fellow Man. 80 out CT
lCo failure caused by not knowing how to
make the most of men.
One way by might treat them like an or
ange. Squeeze the juice out and throw the
skin on the pavement to overthrow you the
next day: This is the trouble with Europe
to-day. But the true thought is that he does
the most for me who makes me do the most
for him.
You never know what is in you till some
one else needs you more than you need your
sells. The two ways of treating man are the
selhsh and Sacrlhcial. The keynote of the
Psalm OF Life, for the ages was struck on
Calvary.
Mr.. Clifford then gave an abstract of Low
ellis Sir Launfall, and in closing said "He
who has mastered himself, his civilization
and raw material and ministers to his broth
er man has solved the Problems of Life /"
SATURDAY.
At o'clock the third normal hour was
lead by Rev. A. I. Dunn.
In continuance of the subject of the first
normal hour, Mr.. Dunn spoke of the mutual
obligations of church and Sunday School
Those of the Church to Sunday School are
Sympathy,
support,
Supervision.
OF the Sunday School to Church:
church.
To contribute power to church work.
Qualifications for teaching:
Position of teacher is important,
Because of divine call;
Because OF divine message;
Because OF divine mission.
Qualifications:
Piety,
Preparation,
Prayer
AT $50 o'clock, chorus rehearsal, Prof
Morse.
AT 9.45 the fourth normal hour, in charge
of Rev. W. F. Berry. Subject: 'History in
the Bible" The hour was spent in review
and consideration of the periods into which
Bible history is divided, and the administra-
tions of the periods.
A change was made in the programme to-
day, and Rev. II. c. Westwood, d. D., of
Providence, r. l., gave the forenoon lecture
instead Of Rev. Robert Nourse.
Rev. A. Il. Dunn presided and gave some
explanation OF the G. L. S. C. work before
introducing
DIR. wEsTwooD,
who gave as his subject, "The Ethical In
Teaching"
He first expressed pleasure at being in
Fryeburg again and seeing so many old and
new faces here. Rugby and Do-the-boys
Hall were first contrasted. Though Great
Britain may point to Oxford, Cambridge and
Glasgow, we havesYale, Harvard and Prince
ton, and many place our Phillips Academy
with Rugby, we have no counterpart for Do
the-boys Hall. Some one said of Arnold.
what pity man nit to be statesman
should be employed in teaching school boys
But to be prince among teachers one must
be prince among men, Arnold said, "It is
not necessary that this be school of
300 100 or even 80 boys, but it must
be a school of Christian gentlemen"
The teachers busnes; is with the human
mind, yet gives tone to the immortal spirit.
Teachers are too much regarded as a neces-
sary evil.
There are really five learned professions.
the ministry, teaching, medicine, literature
and the law. Teachers often fail from lack
of cooperation of parents-and school direc-
tors. The surroundings of school buildings
attitude of parents and committee towards
teacher and scholars are the first elements i'm
ethical training. The personal character of
the teacher is of equal Importance with men
tai qualifications
When speaking of ethical training we do
not refer to any special sectarian doctrine.
but the religious truth common to all. We
should aim to teach true culture, though the
word is sometimes made ridiculous by those
who do not know its real meaning Culture
should include:
C-COurage.
U.-Unselfshness.
L.-Loyalty.